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medical termage
medical terms ch.8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -stasis | stopping |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -emia | blood condition |
| poikil/o | irregular |
| chrom/o | color |
| hem/o | blood |
| cyt/0 | cell |
| kary/o | cells nucleus |
| plasma | liquid part of lymph and blood |
| platelet | cell in blood required for clotting,clots in site of injury |
| serum | blood plasma(minus clotting factor) |
| heme | non-protein part of a hemoglobin that contains iron |
| leukocyte | white blood cell |
| thrombocyte | platelet |
| albumin | helps maintain blood volume and pressure(simple proteins in tissue) |
| angioplasty | invasive procedure to alter the interior of a blood vessel |
| angina | pain radiating from the heart to the shoulder and left arm, feeling of suffocation |
| adenitis | inflamation of the lymph nodes or glands |
| anticoagulant | substance that prohibits the coagulation of blood |
| arteriosclerosis | degeneration and hardening of the walls of arteries |
| atherosclerosis | fatty degeneration of the arteries |
| bicuspid | heart vlave between the left atrium and ventricle. aka:mitral valve |
| embolism | presence of an obstrction in a blood vessel |
| ischemia | temporary and localized anemia caused by an obstruction of the circulation to a part |
| infarction | infiltration of foreign particles; material in a vessel |
| -osis | condition,status,process, sometimes denoting an abnormal increase |